Attention Chosters.
Yes, your attention please, those of you reading this right now!
Please reflect: When was the last time you ran a full system backup? Or at least backed up your most important files?
Do it.
Do it now.
DO IT NOW.
whats a full system backup. sounds fake. my hard drives die when god decides they die
I've never backed up my files and I've had them all for 12 years without a break between 4 different rigs
i've fallen behind on my scheme and am too depressed to fix it yet.
you are completely correct of course.
Honestly, fair.
Sometimes when I face down a backup I need to do, my innate fear that the backup will uncover something going amiss, combined with executive dysfunction . . . Yeah, that can be awful.
I hope you feel better soon. <3
thank you ♥
i actually lost a HDD just last year and paid like 400 for a mostly successful salvage. so the lesson should be fresh...
No problem! I was running mine and figured it might help at least a few folks <3
Good luck, and may it bring you peace of mind!
this sign cant stop me because i cant read
(jk im omw to backup my config files and stuff)
oooooh this whole year i have been looking to replace my personal storage with a little home NAS but they are so expensive and it is a lot of setup. i have too much data spread across too many drives to back up sensibly with what i have left. i am scared of this because i did have to pay alot of money to recover files when my last hdd failed.
wait hold on most of my storage is filled with steam games i might be able to pick out personal files and back that stuff up but i dont know any good way to automate this like is there some sort of way to just give a program a list of directories then it starts compressing them into one file every few months
That would require more cognitive reserve than I have at the moment.
This fact keeps me up at nights.
Not that I can find anything in the jumbled piles of drives my files are on as is.
Start with the Moment, then take it moment to moment from there.
But yeah, sometimes it's more than a little overwhelming to say the least.
*Very gentle hug*
hmmm let's see...
$ sudo zrepl status
... 10 minutes ago 
to three destinations – one across my bedroom, one across town, and one in Switzerland
that reminds me though, I should rerun the manual critical-files-only backup on my phone, to make sure I have a copy of the keys that'll reduce the hassle for getting at the remote backups in an emergency
Ooh nothing like a house fire or two to make you subscribe to an off-site backup service. 😅
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh FINE
(considering I had a hard drive crash last year that lost me two years of shit including photos of the One Vacation I've had in like 6 years (managed to recover some of it from my habit of sending things to a friend), I really should be doing this more.)
ITs been a few years. I should do that soon! Thanks for the heads up!
I mean, I have an online duplicate via dropbox and an SSD ready to go at all times?
Saved me a lot of grief when my house burned down in 2014, tell you what.
Though if anything, there's shit I could afford to trim out in there...
All of my digital photos are in iCloud Photos. A bunch of my data is in iCloud Drive.
A whole mess of my data is not backed up anywhere. I just had to recover a 10 TB ZFS volume from four failing drives, and all that data is now in a BTRFS volume, on a single 18 TB CMR 7200 RPM drive. I want to get a second of the same capacity and model, to mirror the storage, but I can't afford that right now.
This 18 TB drive now has 6.5 TiB of data on it. I do not have any cloud services with that much storage, so I'd be looking at a BackBlaze backup subscription for that. And then I'd have to trickle all this data at it, at 40Mbps.
Paying ahead of time this month is out of the question, as my current budget has $1 left for the rest of the month.
